A warm welcome for incoming Brahmas

orientation FROM P. 1 could check out various clubs, including E-Sports Club, Printed Works, UNICEF, Gender-Sexuality Alliance and others (including The Bull’s Eye).

“The goal is to attract the incoming freshmen that will be coming here next year and to welcome them to an inclusive community where they can have fun and meet new people,” president of E-Sports senior Carly Law said.

Many of the clubs hope to expand membership by attracting the incoming freshman to join them in the coming year.

“I hope the incoming freshmen are able to bring their own experiences and their own thoughts into our club to expand on what we already do,” junior GSA member Natalie Thai said. “Hopefully, as current officers graduate, more freshmen and other younger students can take over and create even more from this club.”

Other clubs reflected similar sentiments, hoping that the middle schoolers would be able to contribute to the growing club atmosphere on campus.

“We hope they bring the desire to make a difference and help our club in volunteering as well as to learn and the drive to just be involved in our school and their communities,” UNICEF president junior Sabrina Lin said.

Many of the incoming freshmen found the event to be informational and helpful.

“I think [the orientation] was really fun. It showed me how the school is,” eighth-grader Spencer Wong said. “I think I’ll like the events. It looks really fun from what I’m experiencing.”

Many of the eighth-graders also said they approved of the school based on what they saw on the tour, from the student store to the community.

“This school is a masterpiece. The community looks so nice and everybody is friendly,” eighth-grader Kevin Hu said. “I like so much about the school.”

Ranting about academics aside, journalism has been a really great experience. Well, in junior year at least. I’m not trying to lambaste the current program because I think with the situation we were put in this year, we tried (kind of) our best.

But this year has been the opposite of fun. It’s not like there was no fun from this school year, having underclassmen was fun; it was super easy to make fun of them. But teaching them was also the main source of fulfillment I got this year because everything else was just super weird, and I’m really not sure how it’s affected my opinion on the art. But there’s really no need to go into what I didn’t like this year, that’d take too long and be far too complicated. In short, do I still enjoy journalism? Yes. Do I plan to continue writing in college? Yes. Do I still really want to write a story comparing different types of peanut butter called “The Peanut Butter Jam”? Of course. Despite all these yes’s, did I kind of hate this year of journalism? Indubitably. With all that said, I do want to clarify that this really all represented a small facet of how I felt about high school though, and I don’t want this column to discount all the fun and growth I’ve experienced throughout these years. I enjoyed these years and what I’ve put down are really the only major nitpicks and complaints I have about high school. There were plenty of good things like learning to better work with people, maintaining a work ethic, finding my passion etc, but for this I wanted to sort of vent a bit. I truly have become a different person from who I was going into high school and I’m just excited to take on whatever’s next.